Natalia Goncharova and Alexandra Exter were both Russian artists but where one moved to Paris and incorporated folk art traditions into her work, the other was drawn back to Bolshevik Russia and embraced the revolutionary art of constructivism.

It's the small lively clay studies for the bronze civic monuments <cite>Burghers of Calais</cite> by Auguste Rodin and <cite>Monument to the Republic</cite> by Jules Dalou that bring us closer to the artists themselves.

Natalia Goncharova and Alexandra Exter were both Russian artists but where one moved to Paris and incorporated folk art traditions into her work, the other was drawn back to Bolshevik Russia and embraced the revolutionary art of constructivism.

It's the small lively clay studies for the bronze civic monuments <cite>Burghers of Calais</cite> by Auguste Rodin and <cite>Monument to the Republic</cite> by Jules Dalou that bring us closer to the artists themselves.

Storytelling

Streeton's eyewitness account of the death of a workman during the blasting of a railway tunnel at Lapstone in the NSW Blue Mountains. It becomes the inspiration for his painting "Fire's on, Lapstone Tunnel".